Streptococcus merionis (DSM 19192, CCUG 54871, WUE3771)

Name: Streptococcus merionis (DSM 19192, CCUG 54871, WUE3771)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 14844

Type strain

Strain Designation WUE3771

Culture col. no. DSM 19192 CCUG 54871 WUE3771

NCBI tax ID(s) 1123308 400065

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG Literature strains

History <- U. Vogel <- K. Brehm and M. Spiliotis; WUE3771

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Streptococcus merionis WUE3771 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from Echinococcus multilocularis grown in Meriones unguiculatus.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped microaerophile mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407482

NCTC 13788,DSM 19192,CCUG 54871

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:31

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Streptococcaceae

Genus Streptococcus

Species Streptococcus merionis

Full scientific name Streptococcus merionis Tappe et al. 2009

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
32636	positive	coccus-shaped
125438				90.146

Pigmentation

32636

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7962	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base
7962	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
7962	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
32636	positive	growth	10-45
32636	positive	optimum	27.5	mesophilic
60363	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
7962	microaerophile
32636	facultative anaerobe
60363	microaerophile
125439	microaerophile	97.1

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
32636
125439		96.6

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32636	NaCl	positive	growth	<6.5 %

Observation

32636

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68381	40585 ChEBI	alpha-cyclodextrin	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API rID32STR
68381	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
32636	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
68381	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	hydrolysis	from API rID32STR
68381	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
32636	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
68381	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
32636	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
68381	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	320055 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	27941 ChEBI	pullulan	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
32636	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
68381	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
32636	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
68381	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from	from API rID32STR
68381	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32STR

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68381	15688 ChEBI	acetoin		from API rID32STR

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
68381	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-	from API rID32STR

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68381	Alanyl-Phenylalanyl-Proline arylamidase	+		from API rID32STR
68381	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API rID32STR
68381	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22	from API rID32STR
68381	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API rID32STR
68381	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API rID32STR
68381	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API rID32STR
68381	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31	from API rID32STR
68381	beta-mannosidase	+	3.2.1.25	from API rID32STR
68381	glycyl tryptophan arylamidase	-		from API rID32STR
68381	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API rID32STR
68381	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API rID32STR
68381	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32STR

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	100	15 of 15
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	80	4 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	76.47	26 of 34
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	heme metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	purine metabolism	68.09	64 of 94
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	methionine metabolism	65.38	17 of 26
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	63.64	7 of 11
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	60	27 of 45
66794	alanine metabolism	58.62	17 of 29
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	56.04	51 of 91
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	55.56	5 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	urea cycle	53.85	7 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	isoleucine metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	propionate fermentation	50	5 of 10
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	50	4 of 8
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	degradation of hexoses	50	9 of 18
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	lipid metabolism	48.39	15 of 31
66794	degradation of sugar acids	48	12 of 25
66794	degradation of pentoses	46.43	13 of 28
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	46.43	13 of 28
66794	serine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	citric acid cycle	42.86	6 of 14
66794	mevalonate metabolism	42.86	3 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	tyrosine metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	glutathione metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	tryptophan metabolism	42.11	16 of 38
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	bacilysin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	40	2 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	40	2 of 5
66794	leucine metabolism	38.46	5 of 13
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	flavin biosynthesis	33.33	5 of 15
66794	arginine metabolism	33.33	8 of 24
66794	valine metabolism	33.33	3 of 9
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	lysine metabolism	28.57	12 of 42
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	28.57	2 of 7
66794	histidine metabolism	27.59	8 of 29
66794	proline metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	23.08	6 of 26
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	22.22	2 of 9

API rID32STR

@ref	ADH (Arg)	beta GLU	beta GAR	beta GUR	alpha GAL	PAL	RIB	MAN	SOR	LAC	TRE	RAF	SAC	LARA	DARL	Acid from alpha-cyclodextrinCDEX	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	Alanyl-Phenylalanyl-Proline arylamidaseAPPA	beta GAL	Pyrrolidonyl arylamidasePyrA	N-Acetyl-glucosaminidasebeta NAG	Glycyl-tryptophan arylamidaseGTA	HIP	GLYG	PUL	MAL	MEL	MLZ	Acidification of methyl beta-D-glucopyranosideMbeta DG	TAG	beta MAN	URE
7962	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Disease	-
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	-
#Host	#Mammals	#Muridae (Mouse/Rat)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Host species
7962	Echinococcus multilocularis grown in Meriones unguiculatus			Germany	DEU	Europe	Echinococcus multilocularis;Meriones unguiculatus
60363	Mongolian gerbil,peritoneal cavity (fox tapeworm)	2005	Bavaria	Germany	DEU	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AM396401 (>99% sequence identity) for Streptococcus merionis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	16
Plant Samples
Total Samples	17

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7962	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM38008v1 assembly for Streptococcus merionis DSM 19192	scaffold	GCA_000380085	1123308.3	2515154010	1123308	72.8

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7962	Streptococcus merionis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain WUE3771	AM396401	1354		400065

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7962	46.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Streptococcus merionis DSM 19192
NCBI: GCA_000380085

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	76.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	89.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	microaerophile	97.10	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Streptococcus merionis DSM 19192 DSM 19192
NCBI: GCA_000380085.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	85.21	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	88.41	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	94.56	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	83.71	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.50	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	90.15	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Streptococcus pneumoniae Evades Host Cell Phagocytosis and Limits Host Mortality Through Its Cell Wall Anchoring Protein PfbA.	Yamaguchi M, Hirose Y, Takemura M, Ono M, Sumitomo T, Nakata M, Terao Y, Kawabata S.	Front Cell Infect Microbiol	10.3389/fcimb.2019.00301	2019
Pathogenicity	Orally administered Odoribacter laneus improves glucose control and inflammatory profile in obese mice by depleting circulating succinate.	Huber-Ruano I, Calvo E, Mayneris-Perxachs J, Rodriguez-Pena MM, Ceperuelo-Mallafre V, Cedo L, Nunez-Roa C, Miro-Blanch J, Arnoriaga-Rodriguez M, Balvay A, Maudet C, Garcia-Roves P, Yanes O, Rabot S, Grimaud GM, De Prisco A, Amoruso A, Fernandez-Real JM, Vendrell J, Fernandez-Veledo S.	Microbiome	10.1186/s40168-022-01306-y	2022
Phylogeny	Streptococcus merionis sp. nov., isolated from Mongolian jirds (Meriones unguiculatus).	Tappe D, Pukall R, Schumann P, Gronow S, Spiliotis M, Claus H, Brehm K, Vogel U	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65823-0	2009

References

#7962	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19192
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#28847	IJSEM 766 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65823-0 , PubMed 19329603 )
#32636	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28847
#60363	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 54871
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#68381	Automatically annotated from API rID32STR .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Streptococcus merionis (DSM 19192, CCUG 54871, WUE3771)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API rID32STR

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000380085

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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